Jonathan Opp

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I am President + Partner at New Kind, a branding agency that specializes in helping open source and SaaS technology companies grow. Formerly Sr. Manager, Brand Communications + Design at Red Hat, and prior to that, held communications roles at IBM and Gateway. Find Jonathan on LinkedIn.

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Open Thread Thursday: Who needs managers, anyway?

Gary Hamel, one of the world's leading business thinkers, has said that open source is one of the greatest management innovations of the 21st century. In his outstanding book…

Open Thread Thursday: Release early, release often?

You may be familiar with the Thomas Edison quote: "I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work." In the open source way, the principle is sometimes referred…

Open Thread Thursday | Business: Can the truth really set you free?

There's a lot of talk about openness and transparency in the world of business these days. So we wanted to ask: What does it really mean to be an open company? Where are you…

Giving creative projects a community kickstart

The project was called Kind of Bloop. An 8-bit tribute to the Miles Davis masterpiece “ Kind of Blue”. Yes, the same sound you remember from first-generation Nintendo games…

Open Thread Thursday | Business : What's the one thing every company could do today to encourage a culture of collaboration?

Every Thursday we'll pose an open question in one or more channels on opensource.com. Today we start with the business channel. Our first question: What's one thing every…

Where design thinking and open source community collaboration meet

In comparing traits associated with design thinking collaboration and collaboration in the open source community, there are many parallels: open exchange, broad participation…